Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam

MICHAEL FRISHKOPF is a professor of music and Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta. He is the editor of Music and Media in the Arab World.FEDERICO SPINETTI is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne. He is the editor of Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha: Musical and Historical Trajectories between Italy and Turkey.

This volume presents a compelling case for increased attention to sound as both a design principle and a primary factor that shapes the social utility of built environments....the chapters provide a powerful demonstration of the multifaceted ways that the interaction between sounds and surfaces can hold meaning for the people who create, experience, and transform them...The difficult task that the editors have undertaken to create a multidisciplinary and multisensory exploration of sound and space is accomplished admirably while leaving room for further exploration of sound and space in Islamic cultures that were not included in the volume. (Ethnomusicology)

• List of Figures, Plates, Charts, and TablesForeword, by Ali S. AsaniAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam, by Michael Frishkopf and Federico SpinettiPart One: Transregional 1. Listening to Islamic Gardens and Landscapes, by D. Fairchild RugglesPart Two: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey 2. A Sound Status among the Ottoman Elite: Architectural Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques and Their Recitation Programs, by Nina Ergin3. A Concert Platform: A Space for a Style in Turkish Music, by John Morgan O’Connell4. Articulating Otherness in the Construction of Alevi-Bektaşi Rituals and Ritual Space in a Transnational Perspective, by Irene MarkoffPart Three: The Arab World 5. Venerating Cairo’s Saints through Monument and Ritual: Islamic Reform and the Rise of the Architext, by Michael Frishkopf6. Nightingales and Sweet Basil: The Cultural Geography of Aleppine Song, by Jonathan H. Shannon7. Aural Geometry: Poetry, Music, and Architecture in the Arabic Tradition, by Samer AkkachPart Four: Andalusia and Europe 8. Tents of Silk and Trees of Light in the Lands of Najd: The Aural and the Visual at a Mawlid Celebration in the Alhambra, by Cynthia Robinson9. Aristocratic Residences and the Majlis in Umayyad CÓrdoba, by Glaire D. Anderson10. Sounds of Love and Hate: Sufi Rap, Ghetto Patrimony, and the Concrete Politics of the French Urban Periphery, by Paul A. SilversteinPart Five: Central and South Asia 11. Ideal Form and Meaning in Sufi Shrines of Pakistan: A Return to the Spirit, by Kamil Khan Mumtaz12. The Social and Sacred Microcosm of the Kiiz Üi: Space and Sound in Rituals for the Dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia, by Saida DaukeyevaPart Six: Iran 13. Listening to Pictures in Iran, by Anthony Welch14. Of Mirrors and Frames: Music, Sound, and Architecture at the Iranian Zūrkhāneh, by Federico SpinettiReferencesContributorsIndex